Composer Bela Bartok collects field recordings of folk songs from Czech peasants. It moved him deeply. From that moment on, the 23-year-old dedicated himself to the collection, study and presentation ...

(The) Wooden Prince BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Thomas Dausgaard, Conductor Divertimento BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Thomas Dausgaard, Conductor Romanian Folkdances BBC Scottish Symphony ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The intricate weave of Mat Maneri’s raspy viola and Lucian Ban’s full-bodied piano has been a jazz pleasure for ...

Classical composer Bela Bartok was fascinated by folk melodies he heard throughout his native Transylvania at the close of the 19th century / beginning of the 20th century. Similar to when American ...

Considered one of the greatest composers of the 20th century Béla Bartók, was one of the founders of the field of ethnomusicology. Bartók had an affinity for Rumanian folk traditions because he felt ...

Music has a life-giving force and uncanny power of resilience. Bela Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra was written on what many thought was the composer’s deathbed, but bringing it into the world gave ...

The work of a 20th Century master, Bela Bartók, and the folk music that provided so much of his inspiration, are brought together at the Sage Gateshead by the Takacs Quartet and the distinguished ...

Classical music has never lived in a bubble. There has always been a free flow of ideas intersecting so-called art music and folk music. In this concert from Boston, they all come together: The ...

Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Béla Bartók. Music Featured: For Children Piano Concerto No 3 Contrasts Hungarian Sketches Kossuth 14 Bagatelles, Nos 4 & 5 Piros Alma / Red Apple 44 Duos ...